I have a pi running Raspbian GNU/Linux 7.
How can I move this to newer versions? I'd prefer not to do a clean install as that would involve restoring all my bits and pieces of customisation.
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5 years ago
-- Chris Green
How to upgrade from Raspbian 7 to 8 to 9?
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5 years ago
Hi,
It's like a classical upgrade on debian.
There is also rpi-update for the kernel (may read the man to select the good kernel for the release).
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5 years ago
Ah, thank you. Looking on the Raspberry Pi site it said that just doing 'apt dist-upgrade' should do it - but it didn't. The above tells me *why* dist-upgrade didn't work and how to do the job properly.
-- Chris Green
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Did you remember to do apt-get update first?
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Yes.
'apt dist-upgrade' will only upgrade if the sources.list file has 'stable' in it rather than wheezy or jessie or stretch. Mine had wheezy in it so I needed to change all wheezy to jessie.
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Don't forget to also make that change to any files in /etc/apt/ sources.list.d subdirectory.
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Of course, not that I had anything there as mine is a minimal Pi installation with virtually nothing added.
I did discover it was still running Logitech Music Server (which I no longer need) and that was using a *lot* of storage.
-- Chris Green